ZMT - Leibniz Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung
CALL FOR PAPERS: Leibniz Environment and Development Symposium 2025
19/09/2025 | ZMT’s social sciences groups will host the Leibniz Environment and Development Symposium (LEADS) on 10 - 11 December 2025. This lunch-to-lunch gathering is designed for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to present advanced full paper drafts and...
Shaping our shared future: Invitation to a workshop with CEMarin on 26 September
16/09/2025 | On Friday, 26 September 2025, the Corporation Center of Excellence in Marine Sciences (CEMarin) invites all interested ZMT colleagues and researchers with a focus on Colombia and the wider region to a mini-workshop. The event will take place from...
Bremen Criteria 2025: Updated Guidelines for Equitable and Responsible Research
15/09/2025 | Die Bremer Kriterien dienen als Leitfaden für die Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem ZMT und seinen Kooperationspartnern. Sie entstanden 1991 und wurden 2015 sowie zuletzt 2025 überarbeitet. Auf Basis unserer Erfahrungen mit Co-Design und unseren...
Climate, Coasts, Complexity: Northern Germany at the heart of Earth System Modelling
09/09/2025 | In September, Northern Germany becomes the meeting point for the international Earth System Modelling community. Three high-level scientific events, the CELLO Conference and the natESM Focus Workshop on Ocean Biogeochemistry in Hamburg, and the...
Shaping marine futures: Successful summer course on transdisciplinarity
03/09/2025 | This summer, ZMT, IPB University in Indonesia, the International Ocean Institute (IOI), the University of Bremen and other partners jointly organised an international summer course on transdisciplinary research at IPB in Indonesia for the first...
Study on the effectiveness of the whale sanctuary in the German North Sea published
20/08/2025 | The first project report from the CREATE joint project within the framework of the ‘sustainMare’ research mission of the German Marine Research Alliance (DAM) has been published. The study, authored by Wiebke Homes (ZMT) in collaboration with Prof. Dr....
Expanding the National Research Data Infrastructure: Bremen’s key role reaffirmed
Members of the U Bremen Research Alliance (UBRA), among them ZMT, have been participating in five of the nine projects from the first funding round to establish the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). On July 4, 2025, Germany’s Joint...
New IUCN Task Force on Fisheries and Conserved Areas with ZMT participation
14/07/2025 | Marine protected areas (MPAs) are vital area-based conservation measures for marine biodiversity. While some MPAs are fully protected, others allow certain sustainable uses, such as fishing, provided these have low ecological impact, are...
ZMT study: Opinions within inner circles influence perception of social division
08/07/2025 | Are opinions on controversial political issues as divided as many people perceive them to be? Researchers from the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen, the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) in Vienna and the University of...
"Generating Impact Through Transdisciplinary Research": Summer course by IOI, ZMT and IPB
03/07/2025 | From 28 July to 8 August 2025, IOI Germany, the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), the University of Bremen, and IPB University (Indonesia) will jointly host their first international summer course on the topic "Generating Impact...